Of all the languages which I have personally used. I loved Borland's Delphi (loosely base on Modula II) the best.
On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 8:22 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) < shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net> wrote: > In <533766af.3000...@t-online.de>, on 03/30/2014 > at 01:34 AM, Bernd Oppolzer <bernd.oppol...@t-online.de> said: > > >And my experience is that over 90 percent of them have > >no clue what the descriptor logic of PL/1 is all about, > > Nor should they. They should, however, understand the DECLARE > statement. > > >in C you have to do by reference explicitly by passing pointers > > That's by value, and one of the pitfalls of C. > > >This is different from every other programming language. > > Neither ALGOL 60 nor Ada allows mismatched parameters, and they are > far from the only ones that type-check. > > >BTW: is this kind of flexibility - adjustable lengths inside > >structures - really useful? > > Yes. > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT > ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> > We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. > (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- There is nothing more pleasant than traveling and meeting new people! Genghis Khan Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
